First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Blytheville, AR 72315. It is one of 83 churches in Blytheville, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Blytheville, AR, 72315First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 94.3%
- Obesity: 54.0%
- Food Insecurity: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (25.9–52.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (1.6–27.3%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Blytheville city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 188 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Blytheville — 0.2 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- North Tenth Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blytheville First Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wellspring Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Promised Land United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Methodist Church — 15.6 mi away in Manila, AR
- First United Methodist Church — 15.8 mi away in Osceola, AR
- Faith United Methodist Church — 20.5 mi away in Henning, TN
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